The Rise of the Fast Food Veggie Burger

Joining Carl's Jr. and White Castle, Burger King is adding a tastes-like-beef veggie burger to their menu.This week, Burger King | Continue reading


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States of America

For his series of documentary short films, States of America, Brad Barber is profiling one person from each of the 50 US states. | Continue reading


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The Day the Dinosaurs Died

It's only Monday, but I'm confident this will be my favorite read of the week. Since 2012, paleontologist Robert DePalma has been | Continue reading


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A Timelapse of the Entire Universe

John Boswell has made a 10-minute time lapse video showing the history of the universe, from its formation 13.8 billion years ag | Continue reading


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Alex Honnold Breaks Down Iconic Rock Climbing Scenes

I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch Free Solo (my hands are getting sweaty and I'm feeling faint just thinking about it), b | Continue reading


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My Recent Media Diet, Spring 2019 Edition

I've been keeping track of every media thing I "consume", so here are quick reviews of some things I've read, seen, hear | Continue reading


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“Mr. Winston Churchill Presents His Compliments to Mr. Winston Churchill”

Before Sir Winston Churchill became a politician, he was a writer. In the late 1890s, Churchill published a pair of books about Br | Continue reading


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Wild Stallions!

If you slip on your headphones and watch this on the biggest available screen, you may feel the unbelievable sense of freedom of | Continue reading


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America Is Becoming Steadily Less Religious

According to new data from the General Social Survey, the number of Americans who answered "no religion" in response to | Continue reading


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What Is Our Least Useful Body Part?

Gizmodo's Daniel Kolitz recently asked a panel of anatomists and evolutionary biologists about what the most useless part of the h | Continue reading


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Why Do Some Asian Accents Swap Ls and Rs in English?

Asian speakers switching their Rs and Ls is an old Hollywood trope that you may have seen in movies like A Christmas Story, Lethal | Continue reading


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The Most Endangered Animal in Every US State

These visually striking posters showcase the most endangered animals from each of the 50 US states.Here's the story of | Continue reading


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Wall Disease - How Do Walls Affect How We Feel?

Jessica Wapner writes in the New Yorker about the research into how border walls affect the people living near them.In the ninet | Continue reading


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A Map of the Internet from May 1973

This is a map of ARPANET circa May 1973 via David Newbury, who found it among his father's papers. The first part of ARPANET was | Continue reading


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The Impossibility of Translating Homer into English

Emily Wilson, who produced this banging translation of The Odyssey and is currently at work on The Iliad, recently tweeted a list | Continue reading


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Timelapse of the Future

One of my favorite Wikipedia articles is the timeline of the far future, which details the predictions science makes about the p | Continue reading


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The Collective Effervescence of Dancing

Why do we dance? It's a silly question because the answer seems obvious -- "because we want to, duh" -- but this video | Continue reading


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This AI Converts Quick Sketches to Photorealistic Landscapes

NVIDIA has been doing lots of interesting things with deep learning algorithms lately (like AI-Generated Human Faces That Look A | Continue reading


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The Designer’s Dictionary of Type

In his forthcoming book, The Designer's Dictionary of Type, Sean Adams profiles 48 of the best-known typefaces in the world, fro | Continue reading


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The Impossible Fractal Triangle

Nidhal Selmi combined the fractal Sierpinski triangle with the impossible Penrose triangle to create the M.C. Escher-like the Se | Continue reading


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Astonishingly Photorealistic Real-Time Rendered Scene By a Video Game Engine

This two-minute scene rendered in real-time by a video game engine is almost indistinguishable from real life. Petapixel explain | Continue reading


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US Postal Service Unveils 50th Anniversary Apollo 11 Stamps

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the USPS is releasing a pair of stamps with lunar imager | Continue reading


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Ikea Hacks for People with Disabilities

Ikea furniture is so ubiquitous that all sorts of hacks and modifications have been designed by fans to coax new uses out of famil | Continue reading


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How Animators Created the Spider-Verse

2018's most visually inventive movie was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In this video, Danny Dimian, Visual Effects Supervis | Continue reading


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‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ Turns 50 Years Old

50 years ago last week, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published for the first time. In a piece for The Atlantic, | Continue reading


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Calling All Fungi & Slime Mold Fans

On her Instagram account, Marin Mushrooms, nature photographer Alison Pollack captures the otherworldly beauty of fungi and | Continue reading


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The Last Days of Walter Benjamin’s Life

This Aeon essay by Giorgio van Straten, "Lost in Migration," is excerpted from a book titled In Search of Lost Books, | Continue reading


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Orson Welles as a Graphic Artist

There are so many sides to Orson Welles that one of them is bound to get overlooked. Welles was a groundbreaking screen and voice | Continue reading


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A map of Fairyland (c. 1920)

The Library of Congress has a remarkable digitized work in its collection titled "An anciente mappe of Fairyland : newly di | Continue reading


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A Phonetic Map of the Human Mouth

This infographic from Language Base Camp shows where the sounds that English speakers use are produced in the mouth and throat. | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

How Ian McKellen Acts With His Eyes

In the latest episode of Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak examines how Ian McKellen does a lot of heavy lifting with his eyes, especiall | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

Deadwood: The Movie

Open the canned peaches because Al Swearengen, Seth Bullock, and the rest of your Deadwood favorites are back on May 31 in Deadwoo | Continue reading


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What’s Eating Dan?

From America's Test Kitchen and Dan Souza, the editor-in-chief of Cook's Illustrated, a YouTube series called What's Eating Dan? I | Continue reading


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Kinetic Alphabet

From London motion design studio Mr. Kaplin, an animated alphabet where the animation for each letter is a experiment that was c | Continue reading


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Actually, Mercury Is Our Closest Planetary Neighbor

If you look at the orbits of the planets adjacent to the Earth's orbit (Venus & Mars), you'll see that Venus's orbit is closes | Continue reading


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Beautiful Hand-Colored Photographs of Flowers from 19th-Century Japan

From The Public Domain Review, Ogawa Kazumasa's Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers.The stunning floral images featured her | Continue reading


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Brilliant Papercraft Typographic Creations

Paper artist Alia Bright combines papercraft and typography to make these colorful, um, sculptures? Texts? They're super-cool, | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

The Wasabi Farmer

By some accounts, 99% of the wasabi consumed in the world is not actually wasabi -- it's horseradish + green food coloring. Real | Continue reading


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Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino brings back two of his biggest stars, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, in his new film Once Upon a Time in Hol | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

Vibrant Oil Paintings of Clouds

Ian Fisher's paintings of clouds are surprisingly lifelike. If you scroll through the paintings on his site, you can see his | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

The Legend of Nixon, a Data-Driven NES Soundscape

Brian Chirls took the approval ratings for Richard Nixon's presidency and using sounds from The Legend of Zelda's classic Dungeon | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

A Huge Collection of Apollo 11 Press Kits

When Apollo 11 landed two men on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth, thousands of people at NASA were joined in the effort | Continue reading


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Cutting Commentary on News Media’s Complicity in Spreading Hateful Views

Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan, a pair of comedians whose hilarious cooking show I've previously featured, are back with Get Kra | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

Monica Lewinsky on Public Shaming

This week, Last Week Tonight covered the topic of public shaming and the episode included an interview by host John Oliver of Moni | Continue reading


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Where Did Consciousness Come From?

Religion and philosophy have their own answers as to where our consciousness comes from, but in this video, Kurzgesagt explores ho | Continue reading


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The Fertility Doctor’s Secret

For The Atlantic, Sarah Zhang tells the story of dozens of people who found out through DNA testing that a fertility doctor named | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

Everything Is Just a Happening

This guided meditation by Alan Watts really helped me this morning. (There's a version without music as well.)From The Practic | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 5 years ago

The Problem of Writing and Money

Now this is a lede:When I first read Virginia Woolf's dictum that "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she i | Continue reading


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